With the children’s continued interest in art materials and nature, Ms. Maria
offered the children glue and natural materials for them to glue onto a canvas.
Creating art activities that are based on the children’s interest also fosters
peer relationships. Here the children collaborate to create an art piece that
represents all the children. Also, by using natural items found around our
classroom or our community we are encouraging the children to observe their
surroundings, such as colorful leaves, twigs, flowers, rocks, bark, and all the
textures nature has to offer. While the children worked on spreading the glue
with the small brushes and finding items to place on the glue they worked on
their fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination. Here are a few pictures of the chilren working on our collage piece.
